Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the committee concluded that the course "could have been better administered," it decided not to raise the 13 failing grades in Senior Lecturer Paul Rotterdam's VES 104, "A Theoretical Approach to 20th Century Art," according to committee chairman and Associate Dean of the Faculty Sidney Verba...
This might be the text on which Peter Nichols elaborates in his scorching comedy of raddled mores in the late 20th century. The tale Passion tells is almost as old as drama is, the eternal triangle of husband, wife and the younger other woman. Despite the hoary age of its theme, the play is clever, impudent, erotic and an emotional demolition...
Gandhi represents 20th century politics' closest brush with sainthood. Yet in this season of celebrating his character, little attention has been given to his context. Or rather, the wrong attention. The usual objection raised against Gandhi is: What would he have done against France? It is important to insist on the right question, because to say that Gandhi would have failed against the radical and unique evil of Nazi Germany is to say merely that he would have failed against history's exception (and done no worse than much of a heavily armed and decidedly non-pacifist Europe...
...better spent in checking the U.N.'s own figures. There, they will find that the nations that criticize South Africa the loudest are often those that profit most from covert trade with her. Statistics from the International Monetary Fund reveal that Israel is ranked as South Africa's 20th largest trading partner, accounting for 4 percent of her imports and exports. On the other hand, Black Africa, which officially maintains a total boycott of South Africa, has economy links with the apartheid regime amounting to almost $1 billion worth of goods each year--roughly eight times that of Israel. More...
...which were once hives of activity, now dormant. No doubt, in a field that preys upon itself, some future doctoral candidate will write her or his discretion on "the rise and fall of New England's Ivy League contract archaeology labs in the last quarter of the 20th century" as an exercised in studying America's fascination with get rich quick schemes. The passing of such a short lived profession is all the more poignant given its subject matter. Whether technicians or scientists scholars or vultures, contract archaeologists and academia's "commitment" to cultural research have proven vulnerable to economic...